Iranian general vows to ‘cut off hands and fingers’ of enemies
If attacked, Hossein Salami says Tehran will ‘set fire to’ Israeli and American ‘economic and political interests’
September 4, 2015, 11:17 am
Hossein Salami (AP)
A senior commander of Iran’s Iranian
Revolutionary Guards on Thursday vowed to “cut off [our] enemies’ hands
and fingers” should the Islamic Republic come under a military strike.
“We
monitor their acts day and night and will take every opportunity to set
fire to all their economic and political interests if they do a wrong
deed,” said Brigadier General Hossein Salami, according to the
semi-official Fars News Agency.
In an apparent reference to Israel and the US,
Salami said that if Iran was attacked, it would “cut off [our] enemies’
hands and fingers will then send its dust to the air.”
Escalating Iran’s rhetoric against Israel,
another senior commander of the IRG said on Wednesday that the regime
would boost its military capabilities relentlessly until Israel was
destroyed.
“The Islamic Revolution will continue
enhancing its preparedness until it overthrows Israel and liberates
Palestine,” the IRG’s Tehran province commander, Brigadier General
Mohsen Kazzemeini, said in an address in Tehran, the semi-state Fars news agency reported.
He also vowed that Iran would maintain its aid
to those who fight Israel. “We will continue defending not just our own
country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, specially
those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with
the Zionists,” Kazzemeini claimed.
He also vowed that Iran would maintain its aid
to those who fight Israel. “We will continue defending not just our own
country, but also all the oppressed people of the world, specially
those countries that are standing on the forefront of confrontation with
the Zionists,” Kazzemeini claimed.
Mohsen Kazzemeini (Courtesy)
Kazzemeini was speaking as Iran started two
days of major drills in the capital, involving 250,000 personnel,
designed to “practice fighting against security threats,” Fars said.
These drills followed reports Tuesday that
Iran has bolstered defenses at its nuclear facilities, introduced new
radar systems, and “raised its alert” for fear of an Israeli attack.
The regime has being carrying out a series of
drills and exercises, including testing anti-aircraft missiles above its
Bushehr reactor, an Israel Channel 10 report said Tuesday.
It said the regime is particularly concerned
by the threat of attack in the current period between July’s finalizing
of a deal with the P5+1 world powers on its nuclear program and the
approval of the deal by the US Congress.
Israel has been a prominent opponent of the
deal, which it argues entrenches the regime, provides sanctions relief
that will enable Iran to fund terrorism, and paves Iran’s path to the
bomb.
In
its report on Gen. Kazzemeini’s speech Wednesday, Fars recalled that
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an address to Tehran
students last year, called for the “full annihilation and destruction of
the Zionist regime.”
On Tuesday, the commander of the IRG, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari,
threatened Israel, saying “its security will not be preserved” and
asserting that the dangers posed to Israel were “growing greater by the
day.”
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